Shadow Slave

Usually, it would have taken Kai a lot longer to fly across the city to reach the tranquil terrace district… not that he would have. But today, the famous idol neglected his habit of staying low and out of sight. It seemed that his speed increased tremendously, as well, because ten minutes later, he was already at Sunny's door.

Maybe because of that, there was no crowd of paparazzi following him.

As they waited for Cassie, Effie rummaged through the empty refrigerator, then walked away from it with a disappointed sigh.

"There's no food!"

Sunny, who was evaluating the damage the boisterous huntress had done to the guest bedroom, glanced at her darkly.

"We've been gone for months. What did you expect?"

Effie made a sad face, then shrugged.

"But I'm hungry!"

Sunny let out an exasperated breath.

"...I have some synthpaste, if you want."

She shuddered and opened her mouth to retort, but at that moment, there was a knock on the door. If not for the haughty shadow standing guard outside — reluctantly, of course, since mundane tasks such as this were grossly beneath it — Sunny would have tensed up.

However, he already knew that it was Cassie.

The blind girl walked inside, froze for a moment, then raised a deliciously smelling package.

"...I brought food."

glance at Kai and

has

stare at the archer

an almost hypnotizing quality. It

became much better looking, albeit to a different degree. After studying Kai and Cassie for a bit, Sunny couldn't help but shake his head ruefully, a stunned expression on his face. He finally understood why Master Jet had called herself average when they first met, at least

put the word average in one sentence with someone like her. Jet possessed an intangible quality that no one he had ever met was able to match. The four of them were Masters too, now, but they were far away from

And Sunny himself?

couldn't call himself unassuming anymore. The scrawny kid from the outskirts was

visible only to Sunny himself, golden threads of Weaver's forbidden legacy glowed with the

of them settled around the table

over the Nightmare, none of the four seemed too joyous… well, except for Effie, who couldn't stop grinning and

free, however, just

no time for weakness. They had to carry on no matter how deep the wounds dealt to their souls cut. Now that the danger had passed and the members of the cohort were

the assault on the Ivory City… all of

their share of demons to

a cup of tea, looked at Sunny,

don't remember much after being

and stared at the archer with a

were swallowed

Kai smiled with embarrassment:

just, sort of… jumped into his mouth. Because

but didn't say anything. She even forgot about her food

looked down, then

He fell for my deception because he had assumed that I would not trust anyone with the knives, I think. After you killed the

a few moments,